ISE-6644: Cognitive Work and Task Analysis

Description: Formative, descriptive and normative approaches to work analyses. Comparison between correspondence versus coherence-driven domains. Classes of cognitive systems engineering requirements: work domain, control task, strategies, social organization, and worker competencies. Distinct contributions of different analyses to cognitive systems engineering. Application of cognitive systems engineering analyses: abstraction decomposition space, decision ladder, hierarchical task analysis, information flow map, and skills-rules-knowledge taxonomy. Derivation of design requirements from different analyses for handling unanticipated and routine events in safety critical systems.

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Course Hours: 3 credits

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